Today's Gospel reading contains a passage of Scripture that every Catholic knows. We hear it at every Mass just before we go receive Holy Communion. They are words spoken by John the Baptist and repeated by the priest as he holds the Eucharist aloft.
There's a very interesting sentence in our first reading from 1 John. He writes, "See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God." And then he follows it up with this. "Yet so we are." Why did St. John feel the need to doubly affirm what he had just said?
I think it's because this concept is sometimes so beyond comprehension that he needed to reassure us that it is true. God is so far above us, how could we be his children? Why, that would make us sons and daughters of God! Yet so we are! Perhaps it is just St. John's little way to help us wrap our heads around an incomprehensible truth.
Father, it can be hard for us to believe that we are your children. Yet so we are. Thank you. Amen.
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